Actress Laura Gevorgyan is known to the Soviet public for her roles in the films “Men”, “Crown of the Russian Empire”, “Star of Hope”, etc. However, her granddaughter, the daughter of the famous director David Keosayan, named after her, went much further than her famous grandmother. In modern Russia, Laura Keosayan is more than recognizable. The girl played more than a dozen roles.
Laura Keosayan: biography, childhood
When a daughter was born into the family in February 1982, everyone was perplexed, because they were sure that it would be a boy. The great director Edmond Keosayan - Laura's grandfather - simply did not want to believe it. For some reason, he was determined that he should definitely have a grandson, and not a granddaughter. The girl, having matured a little, felt her grandfather’s disapproving gaze on her. Perhaps it only seemed so to her, but in some photographs you can see the director’s dissatisfied gaze. But this is only in infancy. Soon he not only accepted her, she even became his favorite. They spent a lot of time talking to each other about everything. He told everything in an allegorical form, and sometimes it was difficult for others to understand him, but Laura Keosayan, whose biography is discussed in this article, got used to this manner of her grandfather and understood everything perfectly, for this he especially loved her.
Family
After the death of Edmond Keosayan in 1994, the actress did not take part in filming. She focused on her children and grandchildren; in some interviews she admitted that she never regretted her decision to leave cinema. Both David and Tigran became directors, like their father.
The eldest son worked on the famous films “The Three Half-Graces”, “The Mistress”, the younger son became famous after the release of “Poor Sasha”, “Silver Lily of the Valley” and others. Laura Gevorkyan’s granddaughter from her first son, the namesake of her grandmother, followed in her footsteps - she graduated from the acting department and has already managed to play in several films.
Raising a grandfather
Since childhood, the girl was obedient and calm, and a calm atmosphere reigned in the family. It was not customary for them to coddle with children: they were treated as adults and as equals. In Soviet times, it was customary for children to forbid a lot; this was not done in their family. Adults never said the word “no,” but children knew what they could and couldn’t do and why. Moreover, this approach to education led to the formation in Laura of such qualities as responsibility for her actions and independence in decision-making.
Another method of raising Edmond Keosayan was ignoring. If he didn’t like something about his granddaughter, he began to ignore her, which was the biggest punishment for her. By the way, he was not against his beautiful Laura becoming an actress, just as he once was not against his wife’s acting career. So, he gave his granddaughter a small role in the film “Ascension”. Laura Keosayan will never forget filming this film. They left an indelible impression on her memory. She also long remembered her meetings with her grandfather’s friends, for example, Tarkovsky or Dzhigarkhanyan.
After the death of her grandfather (she was 12 years old at the time), she felt lost and abandoned and could not come to terms with the loss.
Childhood and youth
In early childhood, the girl lived for five years in India, where her father worked as a representative of Sovexportfilm. My father was always stingy with good words and praise, believing that this is how raising children should be. Laura has a younger brother named Edmond (born in 1987), after his grandfather.
The girl’s grandfather was a well-known film director throughout the Soviet Union, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1976) Edmond Gareginovich (1936-1994), who directed the cult film “The Elusive Avengers.” The girl received the name Laura in honor of her grandmother, the Armenian actress Laura Ashotovna Gevorgyan (born in 1939), who, after working in cinema in the 70s and 80s, left the profession, devoting herself to her family.
Laura grew up as an obedient and calm child. The girl loved her grandfather very much, with whom she spent a lot of time. She was always interested in being with him, despite the fact that he was a strict and uncompromising person. Laura was his favorite, he forgave her many childhood whims.
From an early age, the family treated the girl as an adult. She and her grandfather were always on an equal footing; the girl could ask him any questions, and he always answered them (on topics of nature, life and death). He taught me to respect other people's work and never raised his voice. The worst punishment for a girl was when her grandfather ignored her.
Grandfather’s frequent guests were many bright personalities, including Tarkovsky, Dzhigarkhanyan and many others. When the girl was six years old, the grandfather cast his granddaughter in a cameo role in his film “The Ascension.” He promised Laura that when she turned 18, she would become an actress and they would go to Hollywood together. But their joint wish was not destined to come true; when Laura turned 13, her grandfather died.
The Keosayan family was like a pack of wolves. They love each other very much, but they always look only forward, feeling the support of loved ones, without looking back at each other.
At the age of 15, Laura starred in the work of her uncle Tigran, also a famous director, actor, and screenwriter , in Igor Sarukhanov’s video “The Creak of the Wheel.” In the project, the girl played the role of a Jewish girl during the period of the genocide of Jews in Poland. The uncle was very pleased with his niece’s performance, but for Laura it was a difficult filming, both physically and emotionally. After this shooting, she lost interest in acting.
Laura’s parents wanted their daughter to have a stable job and income in the future, so after graduating from secondary school they sent her to study at Moscow State University at the Institute of Foreign Economic Relations to major in marketing. During her studies at the university, the girl received a qualification as an economist, but by the fifth year she felt like a deeply unhappy person, constantly working with numbers.
After graduating from the institute in 2004 and receiving a diploma, the girl secretly from her relatives went to take entrance exams at the VTU named after Shchukin , where she successfully entered the acting department in the workshop of professor and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2004) Vladimir Vladimirovich Ivanov (born in 1947).
At the age of 22, the girl became a first-year student at a theater university. The girl’s mother calmly accepted this fact, but for two years her father could not come to terms with the idea that his daughter would be an actress . But at the end of the second year he reconciled himself, and they made peace when he came to the theater university to watch student theater works. In 2008, Laura graduated from VTU Shchukin with honors and became a professional actress.
Youth
After graduating from school, she decided to enter the Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) at the Faculty of Economics. Then the family realized that the girl was not interested in the profession of an actress, and to some extent they were glad of this. The girl's father was especially happy. The profession of an economist, and an international specialist, would provide his daughter with a stable income and an excellent career. By the way, Laura was also interested in languages.
Finding a calling
At first, the girl attended classes with pleasure, studied well and already believed that this was the profession of her whole life. However, she soon became very bored with the endless numbers, coefficients and codes, and she began to yearn for the times when her grandfather and uncle gave her some roles. Laura Keosayan, in a word, decided to return to the acting field.
The girl was very purposeful and therefore did not leave MGIMO, completed her studies to the end and only after that, at the age of 22, she entered “Pike”. Her mother supported her in this, but not her father, who was very angry with his daughter and even for some time, like his father once, ignored the girl.
Laura Keosyan before and after plastic surgery: photos
Laura played one of the main roles in the series “Juna”, it became known that after filming she suffered skin damage and poisoning. Make-up artists created the image for the actress using glue to tighten her face.
Long-term use of glue caused inflammation and led to swelling, as well as poisoning of the body. The actress was taken to the hospital, where the girl was recovering, and cosmetologists were involved in restoring her appearance. Many fans of the actress suspect that she had plastic surgery.
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All operations
But not everyone agrees that plastic surgery has improved the girl’s appearance. A facelift, a nose job, correction of wrinkles using botulinum toxin, and after all this users are heatedly discussing that the girl began to look ten, or maybe twenty, years older. Subscribers began commenting on the girl’s photos, saying that she looked older and that after rhinoplasty, her nose wings were no longer seven-fold.
Photos before and after
Comparing old photographs, one can notice that now the girl’s lip proportions have changed, the upper lip has become larger, which visually reduces the distance from the nose to the upper lip. The comments also agree about the girl’s eyes; after the intervention of plastic surgeons, oriental eyes have changed very much.
Such results are possible due to poor quality work, because the skin is stretched, the areas of the eyes, eyebrows, legs, lips, and chin are not perfected.
The actress stopped appearing on television, which raised questions and at the same time answers. Many people began to write that during this time she changed her appearance with the help of plastic surgery. But the actress herself does not confirm plastic surgery.
True fans of Laura Keosayan believe that she is simply waiting for a real and worthwhile project. Who will be successful and will delight you with his acting.
Serious roles
Laura attended classes with pleasure, becoming more and more convinced every day that she was on the right path. The father continued to be skeptical about this. Some time later, his wife persuaded him to go to a student play where their daughter would perform. He refused in every possible way, but curiosity and fatherly love prevailed. After the performance he softened. His daughter surprised him as a director. After that, at his encouragement, her daughter began acting in various television projects. She especially distinguished herself in the mini-series “Gypsy Girl Coming Out,” where she amazed everyone not only with her good acting, but also with her performance of gypsy dances.
After graduating from the institute, the girl entered the service at the theater. Vakhtangov. Laura Keosayan, whose films became favorites for many viewers, gradually became a popular actress. Among her works, I would like to highlight her role in the series “Girl” and “Love on a Knife’s Edge.” Her film partners were Dogileva, Poroshina, Dzhigarkhanyan, Khmelnitskaya, Strakhov, etc. One of her best works is the series “Sklifosofsky”. Here she plays the role of Armenian anesthesiologist Lusparyan Emma. This film was a great success.
Movies
Laura’s film debut took place at the age of 5 in her grandfather’s last film, “Resurrection.” In his biographical film, Edmond talked about the period he spent with his mother and brothers in a Siberian village, when the family was fleeing the Armenian genocide.
After finishing “Pike,” Laura Keosayan immediately entered the service at the Vakhtangov Theater. The actress's first role on stage was Freken Bock in Zhanna Zherdera's entreprise musical "Carlson". This was followed by several more notable works, including the performances “White Acacia”, “Balagan” and “Coast of Women”.
Ivan Rudakov and Laura Keosayan in the film “Gypsy Coming Out”
However, fame came to Laura only after appearing in films. While still a student, Keosayan acted a lot, first appearing as a secretary in the detective story “The Mistress” and the gypsy Ligita in her father’s film “Gypsy Girl with a Way Out.”
Uncle Tigran Ligita did not approve at first, saying that she did not study with Vladimir Ivanov himself in order to start with gypsies. But then, after watching the series, I kept asking if there would be a continuation. Laura regarded such interest as the highest praise, and the strictest viewer, her mother, also liked the work.
Laura Keosayan in the film “Love on a Knife’s Edge”
In the dramatic film “Love on a Knife’s Edge,” the actress played Laura Sarkisova. The heroine's grandfather, an authoritative lawyer played by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, is busy investigating the murder of a popular journalist. And only at the end of the film it turns out that the crime was committed by the beloved granddaughter.
Then there was an episode in “The Three Half-Graces” - that’s what one old man called the heroines Daria Drozdovskaya, Alena Khmelnitskaya and Evgenia Dmitrieva in the film.
Laura Keosayan in the series “Turkish March”
The artist’s credits include the role of Asya in the film “Code of Honor” and Marina in “Turkish March: The Last Marshal.” Successful for Keosayan was her work in the melodrama “Loving Do Not Renounce,” in which the character of Laura became the object of Ivan Rudakov’s fleeting infatuation.
The plot centers on the heroism of civil aviation pilots who saved passengers in an emergency, and the loyalty of women waiting for the return of their loved ones when there was no longer any hope. The audience also remembered Laura as the performer of the song “Don’t Fly Away” that sounds in the film.
Laura Keosayan - “Don’t Fly Away”
2010 was a particularly generous year for Laura Keosayan. This period brought the actress the role of Lera in the film “The Only Man” and work in the TV series “The Mysterious Tomorrow of Fate,” in which she again played a gypsy who predicted the future for the main characters. They were immediately followed by the series “Faith, Hope, Love” and “Moscow. Central District-3".
The most significant role in Laura Keosayan’s creative biography was the role of anesthesiologist Emma Lusparyan in the popular serial film “Sklifosovsky”, where the main character was played by Maxim Averin. Real fame fell on the artist, and they began to recognize her on the street.
Laura Keosayan on the set of the series “Sklifosovsky”
Things weren’t going so well for the actress in the theater, especially after the birth of her child. Laura left the Vakhtangov Theater and moved to the chamber “S.A.D.” Keosayan admitted to the press that in the previous theater she had no roles, and therefore no prospects. The actress decided that there was no need to waste time and wait for work in a repertory theater when she could regularly perform on the stage of an independent one. Laura works with old friends; the artist likes the atmosphere and self-sufficiency of the theater. For the play "Arcadia" she helped sew costumes.
At the end of September 2020, the broadcast of the series “Juna,” which viewers had long been waiting for, began on the screens of central television channels. For Laura Keosayan this is a huge event, because she plays the main role here - the healer Juna Davitashvili.
Laura Keosayan in the TV series “Juna”
To get used to the image of a famous woman, Keosayan studied her biography, learned about all the habits, preferences and manners of the psychic.
Laura was lucky to meet Davitashvili once. Juna learned about a film that began filming during the healer’s lifetime. The fortuneteller wished to meet with the artists. She glanced at Keosayan and immediately asked if she was going to “play Juna.” The women talked about various topics, and, according to the artist, after this conversation she left the room a different person. Keosayan also realized that the film and role would be the best in her acting biography.
Laura Keosayan as Juna
It was originally planned that two actresses would play Jun at 20 and at 50, but Laura expressed a desire to reflect not a fragment of the healer’s biography, but her whole life. Keosayan reproduced Juna’s plasticity and manner of speech and convinced the film crew that she could handle the role alone.
For the second part of the plot - with an aged psychic - the makeup artist stocked up on a special cosmetic glue that tightened the skin, giving the visual effect of age-related wrinkles. Safety precautions required using the glue no more than three days in a row with a break of more than a day after use, which the filming schedule did not allow.
Laura Keosayan
After 2 weeks, the make-up artist informed the director that she was harming the actress’s skin and asked to suspend filming. The director, worried not only about Keosayan’s appearance, but also about Keosayan’s life (the makeup caused intoxication of the body), was ready to agree to a break, but Laura refused to stop working and played to the end.
Immediately after filming was completed, Keosayan began to restore her skin and urgently underwent a course of treatment. The intervention started on time. The treatment at the cosmetic clinic attracted the attention of the press. The media was full of headlines on the topic “Keosayayan plastic surgery - before and after,” citing photos of Laura with and without Juna’s age makeup as an example of changes in the actress’s face.
Laura Keosayan in the film “Sea. Mountains. Expanded clay"
Some fans are sure that the actress had plastic surgery before filming the series. Viewers noticed a characteristic change in the shape of the eyes and swelling when Keosayan appeared on the “Let Them Talk” program, and assumed that the woman had undergone an endoscopic midzone lift. The actress does not comment on rumors about plastic surgery.
In the film “Mannequin” Laura played one of the catwalk beauties, in the biographical film about spaceship designer Sergei Korolev “Chief” - the wife of his colleague, rocket engine developer Valentin Glushko.
Laura Keosayan in the film "Mannequin"
In 2020, a 4-episode melodrama starring Laura, “My Favorite Mother-in-Law,” was released. This is a touching story about women of two generations, whose attitude to life and their own role in it is changed by love. The film, according to the creators, is inspired by the Soviet film “For Family Reasons” with Marina Dyuzheva and Galina Polskikh. These actresses in “My Beloved Mother-in-Law” were joined by Kristina Babushkina, Galina Petrova, Konstantin Solovyov.
The role of Juna
When it was decided to make a film about the famous seer, director Vadim Ostrovsky could not decide who would play the main role. When they started trying on Laura, who was then 33 years old, he realized that she was the real Juna. Even outwardly there was something very similar to a soothsayer.
The director looked at the works in which Laura Keosayan was involved, films where she starred in both leading and episodic roles, and confirmed his choice. Then she showed what she was capable of, copying facial expressions, manners, grace, in a word, the complete image of a Georgian woman. Laura was chosen as the main character. She was over the moon with joy, but had no idea what sacrifices she would have to make for the filming.
When they had to play Juna in old age, a special wrinkle-forming glue was applied to the young woman’s face, which could only be worn for 3 days, and then take a long break. However, filming lasted much longer, and Laura, although warned of the danger, expressed a desire to film without interruption. As a result, not only her skin suffered, but also her entire body, which became intoxicated. She had to undergo a whole rehabilitation course and even go under a scalpel. Articles with photographs and loud headlines appeared in the press - “Laura Keosayan: before and after plastic surgery.” Many did not know the backstory and were perplexed, not understanding why she needed the operation.
Personal life
Laura first fell in love at the age of 15. This happened while I was in America. The object of love was a guy from Ireland. The young people constantly called each other and flew to visit each other. But over time, youthful love dried up.
Laura Keosayan with her ex-husband and daughter
While still a student, while starring in the film “Gypsy Girl Coming Out,” the actress met her colleague Ivan Rudakov. A romance broke out between them. Soon the young people got married, and Laura later gave birth to a daughter, Seraphim.
Laura Keosayan: personal life, family
The young actress met her future husband, Ivan Rudakov, on the set of the film “Gypsy Coming Out.” He also starred in the series and was immediately struck by Laura’s beauty. The young people fell in love with each other at first sight and soon got married. During the filming of “Sklifosofsky” the actress became pregnant. By the 5th month, filming had to be suspended. After the birth of the baby, Laura, after a little rest, returned to filming.
During this period, she left the Vakhtangov Theater for the S.A.D. Theater. After she started a family, Laura has said more than once that she is now immensely happy, and she draws creative inspiration from her family. When all the relatives gathered at Laura’s house for her daughter’s christening, she shared with everyone her desire to go to Armenia and introduce her daughter and husband to her native places, relatives and friends. This is her dream. In addition, she wants her daughter to meet her great-grandmother, after whom Laura Keosayan is named.
Biography
Close relatives admit that Laura Keosayan is an absolute continuation of the dynasty. The actress inherited independence and one hundred percent confidence that she was doing the right thing. And even if you have to fall painfully, there are still more winning situations.
Laura Keosayan
Thanks to this, Laura says, she earned the attention of the public. The only family trait we have to fight is sensitivity. Even the men in the Keosayan family are sometimes moved to tears, and it doesn’t matter what words are spoken - criticism or praise.
